Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography – serie
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Trout Culture
How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West
Häftad, 2017
398 kr
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From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But as Jen Brown demonstrates in Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West, the popular conception of Rocky Mountain trout …
In Defense of Wyam
Native-White Alliances and the Struggle for Celilo Village
Inbunden, 2018
1819 kr
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When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that this traditional fishing, commerce, and social site of immense importance to Native tribes would be changed forever. Controversy surrounded the …
In Defense of Wyam
Native-White Alliances and the Struggle for Celilo Village
Häftad, 2018
311 kr
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When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that this traditional fishing, commerce, and social site of immense importance to Native tribes would be changed forever. Controversy surrounded the …
Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West, 1887-1920
Häftad, 2018
471 kr
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This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, the Pacific region, and the North American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Combining very personal accounts with never before examined …
Gold Rush Manliness
Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope
Häftad, 2018
471 kr
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The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: educated men who valued morality and order. …
Gold Rush Manliness
Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope
Inbunden, 2018
1916 kr
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The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: educated men who valued morality and order. …
Reclaiming the Reservation
Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed
Häftad, 2019
548 kr
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In the 1970s the Quinault and Suquamish, like dozens of Indigenous nations across the United States, asserted their sovereignty by applying their laws to everyone on their reservations. This included arresting non-Indians for minor offenses, and two of those arrests triggered federal litigation …
Reclaiming the Reservation
Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed
Inbunden, 2019
1916 kr
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In the 1970s the Quinault and Suquamish, like dozens of Indigenous nations across the United States, asserted their sovereignty by applying their laws to everyone on their reservations. This included arresting non-Indians for minor offenses, and two of those arrests triggered federal litigation …
Pioneering Death
The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon
Av Peter Boag
Inbunden, 2022
1819 kr
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On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery's Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery's consequent hanging exposed the fault lines of a rapidly …
Forging of a Black Community
Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era
Häftad, 2022
393 kr
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Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He left in the early 1870s to seek economic prosperity elsewhere, but as Seattle transformed from a stopover town to a full-fledged city, African Americans began to stay …
Pioneering Death
The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon
Av Peter Boag
Häftad, 2022
471 kr
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On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery's Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery's consequent hanging exposed the fault lines of a rapidly …
Forging of a Black Community
Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era
Inbunden, 2022
1916 kr
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Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He left in the early 1870s to seek economic prosperity elsewhere, but as Seattle transformed from a stopover town to a full-fledged city, African Americans began to stay …
Seattle from the Margins
Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City
Av Megan Asaka
Häftad, 2022
393 kr
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The creation of Seattle and the displacement of those who built itFrom the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle's urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal, extractive economy of the Pacific …
Oregon's Others
Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2024
1819 kr
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Finalist for the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction, Oregon Book Awards, sponsored by Literary ArtsNativism, pseudoscience, and the campaign against the enemy withinIn the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy …
Oregon's Others
Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2024
471 kr
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Finalist for the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction, Oregon Book Awards, sponsored by Literary ArtsNativism, pseudoscience, and the campaign against the enemy withinIn the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy …
Wrecked
Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific
Av Coll Thrush
Inbunden, 2025
537 kr
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Winner of a 2026 Pacific Northwest Book Award, Pacific Northwest Booksellers AssociationA provocative retelling of shipwreck tales from the Northwest Coast The Northwest Coast of North America is a treacherous place. Unforgiving coastlines, powerful currents, unpredictable weather, and features …
Red Harbor
Radical Workers and Community Struggle in the Pacific Northwest
Av Aaron Goings
Inbunden, 2025
357 kr
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Brings to life Grays Harbor's fiery legacy of class conflictIn the early decades of the twentieth century, Grays Harbor was the Lumber Capital of the World. While thousands of lumber and maritime workers fought for higher wages and decent conditions, employers unified to protect their interests, …
Red Harbor
Radical Workers and Community Struggle in the Pacific Northwest
Av Aaron Goings
Häftad, 2026
362 kr
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Brings to life Grays Harbor's fiery legacy of class conflictIn the early decades of the twentieth century, Grays Harbor was the Lumber Capital of the World. While thousands of lumber and maritime workers fought for higher wages and decent conditions, employers unified to protect their interests, …
Mills and Markets
A History of the Pacific Coast Lumber Industry to 1900
Inbunden, 1974
1819 kr
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Mills and Markets: A History of the Pacific Coast Lumber Industry to 1900
Radical Heritage
Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917
Inbunden, 1979
1819 kr
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Historian Carlos A. Schwantes studies the forces that shaped the history of the labor movement on either side of the forty-ninth parallel and the reason for the eventual demise of the socialist movement in Washington State and its continuing vigor in British Columbia.
Great Columbia Plain
A Historical Geography, 1805-1910
Häftad, 1995
533 kr
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Dismissed in early years as a wasteland, the rolling open country that covers the interior parts of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho is today one of the richest farmlands in the nation. This work is the story of its transformation. Meinig traces all of the aspects of its development by combining …
Atomic West
Av Bruce W. Hevly, John M. Findlay
Häftad, 1998
471 kr
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The Manhattan Project—the World War II race to produce an atomic bomb—transformed the entire country in myriad ways, but it did not affect each region equally. Acting on an enduring perception of the American West as an “empty” place, the U.S. government located a disproportionate number of nuclear …
Power and Place in the North American West
Av Richard White, John M. Findlay
Häftad, 1999
587 kr
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Western historians continue to seek new ways of understanding the particular mixture of physical territory, human actions, outside influences, and unique expectations that has made the North American West what it is today. This collection of twelve essays tackles the subject of power and place from …
Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest
Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century
Av Louis Fiset, Gail M. Nomura m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
471 kr
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Challenging the notion that Nikkei individuals before and during World War II were helpless pawns manipulated by forces beyond their control, the diverse essays in this rich collection focus on the theme of resistance within Japanese American and Japanese Canadian communities to twentieth-century …
Death of Celilo Falls
Häftad, 2005
302 kr
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For thousands of years, Pacific Northwest Indians fished, bartered, socialized, and honored their ancestors at Celilo Falls, part of a nine-mile stretch of the Long Narrows on the Columbia River. Although the Indian community of Celilo Village survives to this day as Oregon's oldest continuously …
Battle for Butte
Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864–1906
Häftad, 2006
471 kr
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First published in 1981, The Battle for Butte has remained the best treatment of the influence of copper in the political history of Montana. "Fine history: rich in detail, full of finely drawn people, masterfully clear where the subject matter is most complex, constructed to preserve something of …
Power of Promises
Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest
Häftad, 2008
548 kr
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Treaties with Native American groups in the Pacific Northwest have had profound and long-lasting implications for land ownership, resource access, and political rights in both the United States and Canada. In The Power of Promises, a distinguished group of scholars, representing many disciplines, …
Shadow Tribe
The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity
Häftad, 2010
533 kr
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Shadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ancestors refused to settle on the reservations established for them in central Oregon and Washington. Largely overlooked in traditional accounts of tribal …
Home for Every Child
The Washington Children's Home Society in the Progressive Era
Häftad, 2010
471 kr
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Adoption has been a politically charged subject since the Progressive Era, when it first became an established part of child welfare reform. In A Home for Every Child, Patricia Susan Hart looks at how, when, and why modern adoption practices became a part of child welfare policy.The Washington …
Atomic Frontier Days
Hanford and the American West
Av John M. Findlay, Bruce W. Hevly
Häftad, 2011
548 kr
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Outstanding Title by Choice MagazineOn the banks of the Pacific Northwest’s greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert. The 586-square-mile compound on the Columbia River is known both for its origins …
